Synopsis The present publication comprises a medley of anthropological research papers written at different periods of time and published in distinguished journals. The main objective of collating the articles is to provide advanced anthropology students certain recipe regarding current socio-cultural problems. It is hoped that this assortment of ethnographic, analytical, conceptual and theoretical issues, covering a wide range of subjects in the present array of papers will certainly provide intellectual stimulants. If this very purpose is fulfilled, the academic goal will be enriches. A number of empirical studies relating to tribal communities and Dalit communities as well has been included in the present volume as they constitute the weaker sections together.